mikeleonardvisualarts has added a photo to the pool:
Damien Douxchamps has added a photo to the pool:
A rare white and red torri gate in Kamakura-gu. Blue sky a must.
Et un peu bleu-blanc-rouge aussi, tant qu'on y est... ( ^-^)v
The race to succeed Gavin Newsom has teetered wildly, and with Democrats in disarray, the Republican ex-Downing Street adviser is leading in the polls. Can he really pull it off?
Few political aspirations have proved more futile over the past two decades than running as a Republican for statewide office in California. Yet Steve Hilton – transplanted Brit, erstwhile business entrepreneur, a former Downing Street adviser to David Cameron and a former Fox News host who says he is friends with half of Donald Trump’s cabinet – is having a remarkably good time of it.
With less than six weeks to go before a primary election that has proved to be both dramatic and wildly unpredictable, most polls put Hilton narrowly ahead of a fractured field of Democrats in the race to succeed Gavin Newsom as governor. It is an astonishing turn of events in a state where Democrats enjoy supermajorities in the state legislature and a two-to-one advantage over the Republicans in voter registration.
Continue reading...Exclusive: Contractor denies allegations including ‘enforced disappearance’ and will help locate unaccompanied minors
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has awarded a contract to a private security company that has faced accusations of “torture” and “enforced disappearance” to assist in tracking down undocumented immigrant children who arrived in the US alone, a contracting document shows.
ICE has stepped up its work so much in pursuing these minors in the US that it has contracted out some of its mission to a third party to put “boots on the ground” and locate immigrant children previously released from US government custody.
Continue reading...The Corsican photographer’s patience paid off when they captured this stunning silhouette of a young woman
Anonymity has been an intriguing concept for ASA since they first took up photography. They shot this image in their home town of Bastia, on the French island of Corsica. This was 2018, in the height of summer, “when the sun was at its strongest. I like working when the light is very strong and the facades are burned by the sun,” ASA says. “Shadows fall very sharply, shapes become clearer, colours become stronger and people turn into silhouettes.”
After positioning themselves unobtrusively on one side of the street with their iPhone X, ASA waited patiently for some time as strangers passed through their frame. “This woman was walking with a certain lightness, almost cheerful. When I looked again afterwards, I had the feeling she might be going to an appointment, maybe even a romantic one. But at the time, I simply saw a young woman moving, carried by her own energy.”
Continue reading...Spinosaurid fossil bought by Stuttgart institution in 1991 has been the subject of a long restitution campaign
It is a 113-million-year-old bone of contention.
After Stuttgart’s museum of natural history bought a fossilised dinosaur skull in 1991, researchers found it was the most complete spinosaurid skull known to date, belonging to a previously unknown genus of the huge meat-eating dinosaurs.
Continue reading...Former major winner ‘committed to making team golf work’
Rebel tour now working on a junior golf initiative, he says
Bryson DeChambeau, the two times US Open champion, has denied reports he is seeking a way out of the beleaguered LIV Golf, the rebel series whose future looks bleak after Saudi Arabian backers indicated they are pulling their multibillion-dollar sponsorship at the end of the 2026 season.
LIV Golf is seeking to secure fresh backers in the wake of the decision by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) to scrap its $5bn (£3.68bn) investment in golf, as part of a general retreat from sports sponsorship. There is every prospect the 2026 season will prove LIV’s last.
Continue reading...Het is VIJF VOOR TWAALF en hier komen de eindjes in het hoefijzermodel der demonstraties (tegen azc, voor ijsbeertjes, voor vrouwen, voor Hamas, enz.) mooi samen! Vandaag wordt er op de A12 gedemonstreerd 'tegen alle azc's' want als hunnie op de snelweg mogen hangen mogen wij dat ook en als hunnie geen wapenstok in de nek krijgen dan wij ook niet! En samen met die demo op de A12 is er een vrouwenmars richting die A12, door de Volkskrantjes en de Trouwtjes van deze wereld angstig weggezet als 'aangepraat door extreem rechts'. Want vrouwen die verkracht en vermoord worden door asielzoekers is natuurlijk wel erg, maar extreem-rechts is veel erger. Laat ze het in Abcoude maar niet lezen! We gaan voor een wedstrijdje ver plassen: de Tena Lady Tour met Bloempotten, Sterres en Vlinders had vorige week circa 400 deelnemers. Klein probleem wel: de A12 is het hele weekend dicht wegens werkzaamheden, dus wat er in de praktijk te blokkeren valt is nog maar de vraag. We hebben de enige echte TOM STAAL live op locatie. Later: meerrrr!
The reason for the extended operation is due to the estimated time of an entire human mission to Mars, which is estimated to be approximately 2.6 years. This is because the launch window to Mars only opens once every two years due to the orbital behaviors of both planets. While no mission has ever returned from the Red Planet, this same launch window works from Mars to Earth, too. When launched within this window, robotic spacecraft have traditionally taken approximately 6-7 months to reach Mars.
However, a human mission would require a much larger spacecraft to accommodate the astronauts, food, fuel, water, and other mission-essential items. For the approximate 2.6-year mission, this would entail approximately 6-9 months traveling to Mars, followed by approximately 18 months on the surface of Mars until the next launch window opens, then another approximate 6-9 months back to Earth. However, having much less fuel due to the electric propulsion system could potentially alter this timeframe.
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